Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Marketplace/App Experience)
$230,000–$290,000 year
RemoteCalifornia, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks. Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes. Take ownership of team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support on-call efforts. Foster a culture of quality by setting code review and design standards, advocating for them through writing and tech talks. Develop talent by providing feedback and guidance while leading by example.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
- experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
- strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
Desired Qualifications
- experience developing consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React
- 2+ years of experience working in search or related recommendation engines
- You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
- Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
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